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Cochrane RCMP are comparing a tow truck driver to a superhero after a daring, high-speed confrontation with a thief.
Brody Leimer, 23, was hooking up a vehicle on the Trans-Canada Highway three kilometres east of the Stoney Nakoda Casino early Monday morning when a man jumped into his truck and started driving away.
With his cell phone in the truck’s cab, RCMP Corporal Troy Savinkoff says Leimer had to leap from the SUV to the tow truck–at 65 km per hour.
Savinkoff says that Liemer felt he had no choice, considering how precariously hitched to the truck the SUV was.
“Eventually the tires of it popped, and it continued to get dragged with sparks going.” says Savinkoff.
“Brody decided that he would have to take matters into his own hands,” Savinkoff says, “and while the vehicle was going down the highway, he climbed out of it, climbed onto the hood of the RAV-4, jumped from the RAV-4 onto his tow truck.”
But the story doesn’t end there.
“Just like a James Bond movie,” Savinkoff says Leimer “made his way to the passenger side, managed to get the passenger door open and swing into his truck.”
Once inside the cab, Savinkoff says the suspect didn’t give up without a fight.
“So Brody had to subdue him.” he says. “There was a bit of a fight in the vehicle–again, while it’s driving down the highway.” Savinkoff adds. “Eventually Brody got the better of the male and get the vehicle stopped, and he tossed the male out of the vehicle.”
20-year-old Aaron Omeasoo-Stephens was arrested, and faces several charges.
Agencies/Canadajournal
